Membership of the 37th Congress of the United States
 
March 4, 1861 to March 3, 1863
 
First Session:  July 4, 1861 to August 6, 1861
Second Session:  December 2, 1861 to July 17, 1862
Third Session:  December 1, 1862 to March 3, 1863
Special Session of the Senate:  March 4, 1861 to March 28, 1861
 

Vice President of the United States: 

Hannibal Hamlin (Maine)

President Pro Tempore of the Senate: 

Solomon Foot (Vermont)

Secretary of the Senate: 

Asbury Dickins (North Carolina)
John W. Forney (Pennsylvania), from July 15, 1861

Sergeant At Arms of the Senate: 

Dunning Mcnair (Pennsylvania)
George T. Brown (Illinois), from July 6, 1861

 

 

Speaker of the House of Representatives: 

Galusha A. Grow (Pennsylvania)

Clerk of the House: 

John W. Forney (Pennsylvania)
Emerson Etheridge (Tennessee), from July 4, 1861

Sergeant At Arms of the House: 

Henry W. Hoffman (Maryland)
Edward Ball (Ohio), from July 5, 1861

Doorkeeper of the House: 

Ira Goodnow (Vermont)

 

Alabama

 

Senators

 

Vacant

 

Representatives

 

Vacant

 

Arkansas

 

Senators

 

William K. Sebastian (expelled July 11, 1861)

Charles B. Mitchel (withdrew July 11, 1861)

 

Representatives

 

Vacant

 

California

 

Senators

 

Milton S. Latham  

James A. McDougall

 

Representatives At Large

 

Timothy G. Phelps

Aaron A. Sargent

Frederick F. Low (presented credentials and claimed a seat as a third representative from California December 2, 1861; declared not entitled to a seat by resolution of May 6, 1862; upon approval of the act of June 2, 1862, allowing the State of California an additional representative, took his seat June 3, 1862.)

 

Connecticut

 

Senators

 

Lafayette S. Foster

James Dixon

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Dwight Loomis

District 2:

James E. English

District 3:

Alfred A. Burnham

District 4:

George C. Woodruff

 

Delaware

 

Senators

 

James Asheton Bayard, Jr.

Willard Saulsbury

 

Representative At Large

 

George P. Fisher

 

Florida

 

Senators

 

Vacant

 

Representatives

 

Vacant

 

Georgia

 

Senators

 

Vacant

 

Representatives

 

Vacant

 

Illinois

 

Senators

 

Stephen A. Douglas (died of typhoid fever June 3, 1861)

Lyman Trumbull

Orville H. Browning (appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Stephen A. Douglas; served from June 26, 1861 to January 12, 1863, when William Richardson was elected)

William A. Richardson (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Stephen A. Douglas; served from January 30, 1863)

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Elihu B. Washburne

District 2:

Isaac N. Arnold

District 3:

Owen Lovejoy

District 4:

William Kellogg

District 5:

William A. Richardson (resigned January 29, 1863 to become Senator)

District 6:

 

John A. McClernand (resigned October 28, 1861 to accept a commission as brigadier general of Volunteers for service in the Civil War)

Anthony L. Knapp (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John A. McClernand; served from December 12, 1861)

District 7:

James C. Robinson

District 8:

Philip B. Fouke

District 9:

 

John A. Logan (resigned April 2, 1862)

William J. Allen (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John A. Logan; served from June 2, 1862)

 

Indiana

 

Senators

 

Jesse D. Bright (expelled February 5, 1862 for acknowledging Jefferson Davis as "President of the Confederate States" and support of the rebellion)

Henry S. Lane

Joseph A. Wright (appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the expulsion of Jesse D. Bright; served from February 24, 1862 to January 14, 1863, when David Turpie was elected)

David B. Turpie (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the expulsion of Jesse D. Bright; served from January 14, 1863)

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

John Law

District 2:

James A. Cravens

District 3:

William M. Dunn

District 4:

William S. Holman

District 5:

George W. Julian

District 6:

Albert G. Porter

District 7:

Daniel W. Voorhees

District 8:

Albert S. White

District 9:

Schuyler Colfax

District 10:

William Mitchell

District 11:

John P. C. Shanks

 

Iowa

 

Senators

 

James Harlan

James W. Grimes

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Samuel R. Curtis (resigned August 4, 1861)

 

James F. Wilson (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Samuel R. Curtis; served from October 8, 1861)

District 2:

William Vandever

 

 

 

Kansas

 

Senators

 

Samuel C. Pomeroy (served from April 4, 1861)

James H. Lane (served from April 4, 1861)

 

Representative At Large

 

Martin F. Conway

 

Kentucky

 

Senators

 

Lazarus W. Powell

John C. Breckinridge (expelled by resolution of December 4, 1861 for support of the rebellion)

Garrett Davis (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the expulsion of John Breckinridge; served from December 10, 1861)

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

 

Henry C. Burnett (expelled December 3, 1861)

Samuel L. Casey (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the expulsion of Henry C. Burnett; served from March 10, 1862)

District 2:

 

James S. Jackson (resigned December 13, 1861 to enter the Union Army; killed in the Battle of Perryville October 8, 1862)

George H. Yeaman (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of James S. Jackson; served from December 1, 1862)

District 3:

Henry Grider

District 4:

Aaron Harding

District 5:

Charles A. Wickliffe

District 6:

George W. Dunlap

District 7:

Robert Mallory

District 8:

John J. Crittenden

District 9:

William H. Wadsworth

District 10:

John W. Menzies

 

Louisiana

 

Senators

 

Vacant

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Benjamin F. Flanders (served from December 3, 1862)

District 2:

Michael Hahn (served from December 3, 1862)

 

Maine

 

Senators

 

William Pitt Fessenden

Lot M. Morrill

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

John N. Goodwin

District 2:

 

Charles W. Walton (resigned May 26, 1862 to become an associate justice of the Maine supreme court)

Thomas A. D. Fessenden (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Charles W. Walton; served from December 1, 1862)

District 3:

Samuel C. Fessenden

District 4:

Anson P. Morrill

District 5:

John H. Rice

District 6:

Frederick A. Pike

 

Maryland

 

Senators

 

James A. Pearce (died December 20, 1862)

Anthony Kennedy

Thomas H. Hicks (appointed and subsequently elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of James A. Pearce; served from December 29, 1862)

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

John W. Crisfield

District 2:

Edwin H. Webster

District 3:

Cornelius L. L. Leary

District 4:

Henry May

District 5:

Francis Thomas

District 6:

Charles B. Calvert

 

Massachusetts

 

Senators

 

Charles Sumner

Henry Wilson

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Thomas D. Eliot

District 2:

James Buffington

District 3:

 

Charles Francis Adams (resigned May 1, 1861 to become Minister to England)

Benjamin F. Thomas (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Charles Francis Adams; served from June 11, 1861)

District 4:

Alexander H. Rice

District 5:

 

William Appleton (resigned September 27, 1861 due to failing health)

Samuel Hooper (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of William Appleton; served from December 2, 1861)

District 6:

John B. Alley

District 7:

Daniel W. Gooch

District 8:

Charles R. Train

District 9:

 

Goldsmith F. Bailey (died May 8, 1862)

Amasa Walker (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Goldsmith F. Bailey; served from December 1, 1862)

District 10:

Charles Delano

District 11:

Henry L. Dawes

 

Michigan

 

Senators

 

Zachariah Chandler

Kinsley S. Bingham (died October 5, 1861)

Jacob M. Howard (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Kinsley S. Bingham; served from January 17, 1862)

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Bradley F. Granger

District 2:

Fernando C. Beaman

District 3:

Francis W. Kellogg

District 4:

Rowland E. Trowbridge

 

Minnesota

 

Senators

 

Henry M. Rice

Morton S. Wilkinson

 

Representatives At Large

 

Cyrus Aldrich

William Windom

 

Mississippi

 

Senators

 

Vacant

 

Representatives

 

Vacant

 

 

Missouri

 

Senators

 

Trusten Polk (expelled January 10, 1862 for support of the rebellion)

Waldo P. Johnson (served from March 17, 1861; expelled January 10, 1862 for disloyalty to the government)

John B. Henderson (appointed and subsequently elected to fill the vacancy caused by the expulsion of Trusten Polk; served from January 17, 1862)

Robert Wilson (appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the expulsion of Waldo P. Johnson; served from January 17, 1862)

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Francis P. Blair, Jr. (resigned July 1862 to become a colonel in the Union Army)

District 2:

James S. Rollins

District 3:

 

John B. Clark (expelled July 13, 1861 for having taken up arms against the Union)

William A. Hall (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the expulsion of John B. Clark; served from January 20, 1862)

District 4:

Elijah H. Norton

District 5:

 

John W. Reid (withdrew August 3, 1861, expelled December 2, 1861 for having taken up arms against the Union)

Thomas L. Price (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the expulsion of John W. Reid; served from January 21, 1862)

District 6:

John S. Phelps

District 7:

John W. Noell

 

New Hampshire

 

Senators

 

John P. Hale

Daniel Clark

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Gilman Marston

District 2:

Edward H. Rollins

District 3:

Thomas M. Edwards

 

New Jersey

 

Senators

 

John R. Thomson (died July 12, 1862)

John C. Ten Eyck

Richard Stockton Field (appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John R. Thomson; served from November 21, 1862 to January 14, 1863, when James Wall was elected)

James W. Wall (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John R. Thompson; served from January 14, 1863)

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

John T. Nixon

District 2:

John L. N. Stratton

District 3:

William G. Steele
District 4: George T. Cobb
District 5: Nehemiah Perry
 

New York

 

Senators

 

Preston King

Ira Harris

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Edward H. Smith
District 2: Moses F. Odell
District 3: Benjamin Wood
District 4: James Kerrigan
District 5: William Wall
District 6: Frederick A. Conkling
District 7: Elijah Ward
District 8: Isaac C. Delaplaine
District 9: Edward Haight
District 10: Charles H. Van Wyck
District 11: John B. Steele
District 12: Stephen Baker
District 13: Abram B. Olin
District 14: Erastus Corning
District 15: James B. McKean
District 16: William A. Wheeler
District 17: Socrates N. Sherman
District 18: Chauncey Vibbard
District 19: Richard Franchot
District 20: Roscoe Conkling
District 21: R. Holland Duell
District 22: William E. Lansing
District 23: Ambrose W. Clark
District 24: Charles B. Sedgwick
District 25: Theodore M. Pomeroy
District 26: Jacob P. Chamberlain
District 27: Alexander S. Diven
District 28: Robert B. Van Valkenburgh
District 29: Alfred Ely
District 30: Augustus Frank
District 31: Burt Van Horn
District 32: Elbridge G. Spaulding
District 33: Reuben E. Fenton
 

North Carolina

 

Senators

 

Thomas L. Clingman (withdrew March 28, 1861)

Thomas Bragg (withdrew March 6, 1861)

 

Representatives

 

Vacant

 

Ohio

 

Senators

 

Benjamin F. Wade 

Salmon P. Chase (resigned March 6, 1861 to become Secretary of the Treasury)

John Sherman (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Salmon P. Chase; served from March 21, 1861)

 

Representatives

 

District 1: George H. Pendleton
District 2: John A. Gurley
District 3: Clement L. Vallandigham
District 4: William Allen
District 5: James M. Ashley
District 6: Chilton A. White
District 7: Thomas Corwin (resigned March 12, 1861 to become Minister to Mexico)

Richard A. Harrison (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Thomas Corwin; served from July 4, 1861)

District 8: Samuel Shellabarger
District 9: Warren P. Noble
District 10: Carey A. Trimble
District 11: Valentine B. Horton
District 12: Samuel S. Cox
District 13: John Sherman (resigned March 21, 1861 to become Senator)
Samuel T. Worcester (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John Sherman; served from July 4, 1861)
District 14: Harrison Gray Otis Blake
District 15: Robert H. Nugen
District 16: William P. Cutler
District 17: James R. Morris
District 18: Sidney Edgerton
District 19: Albert G. Riddle
District 20: John Hutchins
District 21: John A. Bingham
 

Oregon

 

Senators

 

Edward D. Baker (killed October 21, 1861 in the Battle of Balls Bluff)

James W. Nesmith

Benjamin Stark (appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Edward D. Baker; served from October 29, 1861, to September 12, 1862, when Benjamin Harding was elected)

Benjamin F. Harding (elected as to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Edward D. Baker; served from September 12, 1862)

 

Representative At Large

 

Andrew J. Thayer (succeeded July 30, 1861 by George K. Shiel, who contested the election)
George K. Shiel (successfully contested the election of Andrew J. Thayer; served from July 30, 1861)
 

Pennsylvania

 

Senators

 

Simon Cameron (resigned March 4, 1861 to become Secretary of War)

Edgar Cowan

David Wilmot (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Simon Cameron; served from March 14, 1861)

 

Representatives

 

District 1: William E. Lehman
District 2: Edward J. Morris (resigned June 8, 1861 to become Minister Resident to Turkey)
Charles J. Biddle (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Edward J. Morris; served from July 2, 1861)
District 3: John P. Verree
District 4: William D. Kelley
District 5: William M. Davis
District 6: John Hickman
District 7: Thomas B. Cooper (died April 4, 1862)
John D. Stiles (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Thomas B. Cooper; served from June 3, 1862)
District 8: Sydenham E. Ancona
District 9: Thaddeus Stevens
District 10: John W. Killinger
District 11: James H. Campbell
District 12: George W. Scranton (died March 24, 1861)
Hendrick B. White (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of George W. Scranton; served from July 4, 1861)
District 13: Philip Johnson
District 14: Galusha A. Grow
District 15: James T. Hale
District 16: Joseph Bailey
District 17: Edward McPherson
District 18: Samuel S. Blair
District 19: John Covode
District 20: Jesse Lazear
District 21: James K. Moorhead
District 22: Robert McKnight
District 23: John W. Wallace
District 24: John Patton
District 25: Elijah Babbitt
 

Rhode Island

 

Senators

 

James F. Simmons (resigned August 15, 1862)

Henry B. Anthony

Samuel G. Arnold (elected as to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of James F. Simmons; served from December 1, 1862)

 

Representatives

 

District 1: William P. Sheffield
District 2: Nathan F. Dixon II
 

South Carolina

 

Senators

 

Vacant

 

Representatives

 

Vacant

 

Tennessee

 

Senators

 

Andrew Johnson (resigned March 4, 1862)

Alfred O. P. Nicholson (withdrew March 4, 1862)

 

Representatives

 

District 2: Horace Maynard
District 3: George W. Bridges (elected, but was arrested by Confederate troops while en route to Washington, DC, taken back to Tennessee, and held as a prisoner for more than a year; finally made his escape and went to Washington, DC, and assumed his duties; served from February 25, 1863)
District 4: Andrew J. Clements
 
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Texas

 

Senators

 

John Hemphill (did not occupy his seat after March 4, 1861; expelled by resolution of July 11, 1861)

Louis T. Wigfall (did not occupy his seat after March 23, 1861; expelled by resolution of July 11, 1861)

 

Representatives